Features/EchoIconTheme

Echo Icon theme

Summary

Make Echo Icon Theme default icon set for Fedora.

Owner

• Name: Luya Tshimbalanga, Martin Sourada

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora ??
• Last updated: (2008-10-25)
• Percentage of completion: 0%
• Available in a distribution for a number of releases (non-default)

Detailed Description

Echo Icon Theme (echo-icon-theme) is a set of icons designed to be a modern looking, usable and system-wide icon set. It started as a personal project until the community took over. It is basically a successor of Bluecurve but it uses similar metaphors like Tango!, Mango!, Gnome Icon Theme and Oxygen.

Benefit to Fedora

A unique set of icons that combines elegance and usability.

Scope

Echo-icon-theme is also available on Rawhide as pre-0.4 version.

Roadmap

• Revise Echo Icon Theme Guidelines
  • Decide on used projections - check what other icon themes are using, check the options we have, compare them, decide what would work best
  • Prepare various templates
• Create graphical interface for the echo-artist scripts
• Prepare comprehensive todo list for icons we need to create or fix based on usage of icons in various Fedora Spins
  • Are all icons following the guidelines and Echo style? Are all icons consistent?
• Create/fix icons based on the todo list
• Work with upstream where various application icons are not themable
• Enable in basic Fedora Spins

Test Plan

• Install/Update echo-icon-theme from rawhide (yum --enable-repo=rawhide install echo-icon-theme)
• Look for misrendered / missing icons and inconsistences

User Experience

Users will have a fresh look of the icons designed specially for Fedora.

Dependencies

• gnome-icon-theme (in repos)

Contingency Plan

Stay with Mist/Oxygen icon theme.

Documentation

• Wiki page of echo-icon-theme

Release Notes

TBD

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Comments and Discussion

• See Talk:Features/EchoIconTheme

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